After more than 17 hours of deliberation, a jury at Birmingham crown court has failed to reach a verdict over whether four pro-Palestine activists committed criminal damage at an arms factory.
Iain Evans, Hana-Yun Stevens, Frank Sherman, and Hisham Alkhamezi were each accused of criminal damage at a factory owned by Moog, a US aerospace firm, in Wolverhampton.
During the trial, the jury saw footage from helicopters and CCTV cameras which showed the defendants crashing through the site’s front gate and damaging solar panels on its roof.
Prosecution lawyers presented this as an open and shut case given the defendants admitted in court to occupying the roof in order to shut down the factory’s production line. They said the trial “is not about Israel, it’s not about Palestine… It’s simply about whether they unlawfully damaged property”.
But the jury was also shown a social media post demonstrating that the activists’ goal was to disrupt the supply of UK-made fighter jet components to Israel.
Not quite accurate. A jury acquitted the defendants of some of the charges but failed to reach a verdict on the rest, so a retrial was mounted for the outstanding charges, and in that retrial certain things will not have been permitted to be presented in court so the convictions already in wouldn’t be prejudicial for the retrial jury.
Thanks for the nonsense genocide apologism word salad
If you think clarifying documented events is such an inconvenience you have to make wild ad hominem attacks, I do apologise for the inconvenience.
Doesn’t change the facts though, just as the trial doesn’t impact the genocide.
You’re not clarifying anything just repeating regime propaganda.